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The Takanashi Rikka • Kai ~Gekijouban Chunibyo Demo Koi ga Shitai!~ (Chunibyo Demo Koi ga Shitai! the Movie: Rikka Takanashi’s Revision) feature film will hit Japanese theaters on September 14. The condensed summary of last year’s 12-episode comedy television series will include a small amount of new footage and lead into the forthcoming second TV series. The school-yard comedy revolves around a high-school girl who convinces herself that she’s an interdimensional witch.

Source: Anime News Network

The homepage for next month’s Genei wo Kakeru Taiyou (The Sun Penetrates the Illusions) magical girl television series has added a second trailer featuring nearly all newly released footage. The original series from studio AIC will premiere on July 6.

Source: Anime News Network

The homepage for the Kami Nomi zo Shiru Sekai (The World God Only Knows) anime franchise has added a TV commercial for the opening theme single for the “Magical Star Kanon 100%” OAD. The alternate-continuity side-story depicts teen idol supporting character Kanon Nakagawa as a witch. KamiNomi TV series character designer Akio Watanabe will provide the episode’s character designs. Mitsuko Kase (SaiKano, Ristorante Paradiso) will direct from a script by Yuuko Kawabe (Anyamaru Tantei Kiruminzuu). The OAD will be released on June 18 packaged exclusively with limited edition copies of author Tamiki Wakaki’s 22nd collected volume of the Kami Nomi zo Shiru Sekai manga.

Source: Anime News Network

81-year-old voice actor Takkou Ishimori passed away on June 5. Ishimori debuted as an actor in 1960. His roles in anime included cameo characters in shows such as Musashi no Ken, Mister Ajikko, Mahotsukai Sally, Seirei no Moribito, and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. He was best known as the voice of Fleet Admiral Sengoku in One Piece.

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The July issue of Newtype magazine that hits Japanese stores next week will formally confirm the development of an anime based on writer Yun Kouga & illustrator Sunao Minakata’s current suspense action manga series Akuma no Riddle ~ Riddle Story of Devil. The manga story that’s been serialized in Newtype Magazine since September 2012 is set at a school where one teen girl assassin decides to defend her target from dozens of other high school girl assassins.

Yun Koga’s Loveless, Earthian, Genji, and Gestalt manga have all previously received anime adaptations.

Source: Anime News Network

NISA has announced plans for a domestic Blu-ray release of the 2011 Yuruyuri anime series. The 12-episode first season of the mo&eacute slice-of-school-life comedy will be released on a subtitled double-disc set on September 3. The 2012 second 12-episode season, Yuruyuri♪♪, will be released domestically next year.

Studio A-1 Pictures has released the first trailer for its upcoming anime television series Servant x Service. The adaptation of the four-panel comedy manga by Working creator Karino Takatsu follows the daily lives of employees in the health and welfare department of the Hokkaido city government office. Shinryaku! Ika Musume season 2 & Mondaiji-tachi ga Isekai Kara Kuru Soudesuyo? director Yasutaka Yamamoto is directing the series for a July 4 premiere.

Source: Anime News Network

The Dao of Dragon Ball fan site has published a transcript of veteran voice actress Masako Nozawa’s guest panel at the recent Animazement convention in North Carolina.

The homepage for next month’s Watashi ga Motenai no wa Dou Kangaete mo Omaera ga Warui! (No Matter How You Think About It, It’s Your Fault I’m Not Popular) anime television series has added a streaming trailer. The adaptation of the gag manga by creators Nico Tanigawa will premiere on July 8. The series revolves around a freshman high school girl who discovers that making friends in real life is not as easily accomplished as it is in video games.

Source: Anime News Network

The homepage for studio P.A. Works’ upcoming television series Uchoten Kazoku has released a full two-minute trailer revealing a show that looks tremendously enjoyable. The official trailer is region-restricted to Japanese viewers only, so I won’t embed it, but international viewers that want to see an unauthorized upload can easily find the trailer. The adaptation of the fantasy comedy manga by Yojouhan Shinwa Taikei author Tomihiko Morimi will premiere on July 7.

Source: Anime News Network

Developer 5b’s adventure game for the PSVita Yahari Game demo Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru (Even Though It’s a Game My Youth Romantic Comedy is Wrong as I Expected) will be released in Japan on September 19 in a regular edition and a limited edition that includes an exclusive OVA written by original Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru light novel author Wataru Watari. The “OreGairu” anime television series is currently airing in Japan.

Source: Anime News Network

Universal Pictures has acquired the rights to produce a live-action re-make of Fumihiko Sori’s 2007 CG anime sci-fi/action film Vexille – 2077 Nihon Sakoku. Evan Spiliotopoulos (Hercules: The Thracian Wars) will write the re-make.

Source: Variety

Aniplex of Japan has announced plans to officially release English subtitled DVDs of the Gyo OVA and Zetsuen no Tempest television series in America. The 70-minute GYO: Tokyo Fish Attack OVA based on Junji Ito’s horror manga will list at $37.98 and retail at $29.98. The adaptation from studio UFOtable was released in Japan early last year.

Aniplex will release last year’s 24-episode Zetsuen no Tempest televivsion series in two season sets. Each three-disc DVD set will list at $74.98 and retail at $59.98. The first set will be released on August 13. The second set will follow on January 21, 2014.

Yes, Gyo on subtitled DVD is rather pricey. An average of $10 per disc for Zetsuen no Tempest, however, isn’t so unreasonable.

Sentai Filmworks has announced plans to release studio Gonzo’s current moé fantasy television series Zettai Boei Leviathan on domestic home video under the translated title “Leviathan: The Last Defense.” The anime based on the mobile RPG by developer GREE revolves around three dragon-girls who half-heartedly defend their world from being over-run by alien insects.

FUNimation has announced plans to re-release the 2001 Sakura Taisen: Katsudou Shashin motion picture. Geneon released the movie on American DVD in 2003. FUNimation plans to release the film on domestic Blu-ray with the original Geneon-produced English dub and additional, newly created supplemental features.

Source: Anime News Network